The noble goal: getting a garden going in the right direction

Right now I'm missing my garden. At the moment it is a bare scene, the color sucked out of it, the dry reeds of last year's fennel rattling in the wind. I came across a photograph I took last April, when I first planted up my little space. The greenness of it all so many sprouts, such happy little boxwoods. It was like finding a baby picture when your child is a teenager when was this ever...